Every Monday we show you how to do something quick and cool using with Mac OS X. Sometimes it's a tutorial on a lesser-known feature, other times it's a trick that uses built-in functionality such as Terminal — either way, these simple tips can make life better and easier, and they don’t require any special knowledge. All you need to do is follow the instructions!

If you're like us, then you utilize the Finder's Column view to get the most out of file browsing easily and efficiently. The column view can help you easily drill down into complex directory structures, but sometimes you have to resize the columns on-the-fly to ensure that all of the directory contents are visible to you on the screen. In those times, you might immediately think to grab the drag handles and manually resize, but stop! Before doing that, consult this guide to learn all of the resizing tips and tricks in the Finder.

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LaunchBar is essentially “Spotlight Pro,” enabling you to search your Mac and perform actions on found objects. This update sees a larger, more readable default theme aesthetically matching rival Alfred, and the OS X Yosemite Spotlight revamp. But the strengths aren’t only skin-deep.

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Once upon a time, Apple’s 5GB free iCloud storage was considered quite generous. Three years later, the same offer looks Scrooge-like in an age where multiple devices on the same account are now capable of holding 64GB or even 128GB of data. Enter iDrive, a service once focused on Mac and PC backup, now with a renewed focus on mobile (currently iOS, Android, and Windows Phone).

Wherever there’s a Mac being used for work, there’s often a mug of coffee close by. If you do happen to spill coffee on your keyboard — or worse, knock the entire mug and its contents onto the lower half of your MacBook — don’t drop into the fetal position and start bawling; disaster can still be averted.

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It's been almost half a year since we've checked in on the progress of Apple's new "spaceship" campus, and a new video created by the folks over at AppleInsider shows that it's going up quickly. Captured with a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus drone, the footage reveals that most of the major buildings on the campus are already taking shape.

Apple CEO Tim Cook may not have won TIME's Person of the Year award, but he continues to win the hearts of editors of purely economic publications. The latest is CNN Money, where Cook just won the award for CEO of the Year over other worthies such as BlackBerry's John Chen, GM's Mara Barra, and T-Mobile’s John Legere.

Encrypting files provides a robust way to protect their contents. Files are scrambled in a way that makes them unreadable unless a person can provide a password. An empty drive can be formatted so anything you add to it is encrypted from the outset, and you can apply this technique to a volume that only takes up some of the drive’s capacity. Here's how to encrypt your files and keep prying eyes away.

Beamer is a utility that aims to make sharing video from your Mac to an Apple TV easy. Of course, screen sharing from a Mac to an Apple TV is already an option in Mac OS X, but Beamer makes it easier and enables full HD quality, with support for 5.1 surround sound.